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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 23:33

Thou shalt be filled with (n) drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of horror and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

(n) Meaning that it's afflictions would be so great that they would cause them to lose their senses and reason.

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See also Ezekiel 23:33 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    In Ezekiel 23:1 Samaria and Jerusalem are called two sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, in their ungodly relation with Assyria and Chaldea. Aholah means “her tent.” Aholibah, “my tent is in her.” The latte...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 23. FATAL ALLIANCE WITH FOREIGNERS. This is the third and last of the three great indictments (Ezekiel 16, 20) which draw their material from the past rather than (as Ezekiel 22) from the pres...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and sorrow_ Or, affliction....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. The Punishment of Jerusalem 23:22-35 TRANSLATION (22) Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold I am about to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom your soul is alienated, a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; THOU SHALT DRINK OF THY SISTER'S CUP DEEP AND LARGE: THOU SHALT BE LAUGHED TO_ _ THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; THOU SHALT DRINK OF THY SISTER'S CUP DEEP AND LARGE: THOU SHALT BE L...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE UNCHASTE SISTERS, OHOLAH AND OHOLIBAH The idolatries and foreign alliances of Jerusalem and Samaria are here described under the same strong figure which is used in Ezekiel 16. Oholah (Samaria) an...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 23 * The *Lord had made special promises to *Israel. Those...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שִׁכָּרֹ֥ון וְ יָגֹ֖ון תִּמָּלֵ֑אִי כֹּ֚וס שַׁמָּ֣ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    OHOLA AND OHOLIBAH Ezekiel 23:1 THE allegory of chapter 23 adds hardly any new thought to those which have already, been expounded in connection with chapter 16 and chapter 20. The ideas which enter...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next prophecy dealt with the sins of Samaria and Jerusalem under the figures of two women, Oholah and Oholibah. The prophet first described their sins. Samaria was charged with unfaithfulness in h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Reader will enter into the beauties of this Chapter, and the design of it also, if he takes with him the consideration all the way along as he reads it, that the whole scope of the Chapter is to s...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. Chapter 22 recapitulates the sin of Jerusalem, of her prophets, her priests, and her princes. The eye of God sought for some one to stand in the ga...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT BE FILLED WITH DRUNKENNESS AND SORROW,.... Sorrow is the effect of drunkenness; these two generally go together; when a man is filled with the one, he is with the other; this expresses the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. Ver. 33. _Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow._] That d...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore will I give her cup_, &c. I will make thee drink the same bitter draught, or experience the same calamity that has fallen upon her. God's judgments are often compared to a cup of intoxicati...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, her intoxication being caused by the Lord and followed by extreme misery, WITH THE CUP OF ASTONISHMENT AND DESOLATION, WITH THE CUP OF THY SISTER SAMA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Thy afflictions shall be as great as thou canst hold, as a vessel filled with liquor. Thou shalt stagger with sorrows, that shall intoxicate and astonish. In the verse each part explains the other, so...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 23:33 filled H4390 (H8735) drunkenness H7943 sorrow H3015 cup H3563 horror H8047 desolation H8077 cup H3563

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your sister's cup you will drink, Deep and large, You will be laughed at and derided, It contains much. Drunkenness and sorrow you will be filled with, A cup of waste...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Parable of Aholah and Aholibah. Sentence passed upon Judah. CHARACTERS: Ezekiel, Aholah, Aholibah. CONCLUSION: Whatever creature we dote upon we make an idol of, and what we make an idol o...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 23:2. _There were two women, the daughters of one mother._ Samaria and Jerusalem, cities introduced in the female character, as in Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:48....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah._ AHOLAH AND AHOLIBAH I. Sin is self-polluting and therefore self-destroying. Constant contact with sin will pollute the conscience, and render it powerless...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:1 The allegory of the unfaithful sisters parallels ch. Ezekiel 16:1. Jerusalem’s destruction is depicted as yet more just and certain in light of the judgment that befell he

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:32 Two further THUS SAYS introductions frame the final outcomes. The CUP (see v. Ezekiel 23:31) i

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (Ezekiel 23:22.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The transgression of Jerusalem is followed by her punishment. Ezekiel 23:23. “PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA.” “From the circumstance that these names occur in immediate...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION After another pause, the prophet enters on another elaborate parallel, after the pattern of Ezekiel 16:1; but with a marked variation. There we have the history of one harlot, _s.c. _of Isr...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 23: The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Son of man there were two women, who were the daughters of one mother: Now they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whored...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Habakkuk 2:16; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 25:27...

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